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are you trying to get ripped for summer or maybe add some new muscle but you feel like you’re spinning your wheels every time you step on the scale all I’m going to show you today why that could be lying to you and why the three words you need to get your mind are right here [Music] what’s up guys jeff cavaliere athleanx. com I mentioned it in the open body fat percentage that’s where your focus should be whether or not you’re trying to get ripped for the summer or you’re trying to add lean muscle mass now why is that I just said it right there in the answer lean muscle mass when you step on a scale you’re looking at the overall weight of your body it has no regard for the body composition meaning how much lean mass and how much fat mass and when we’re talking about athlean-x and all the transformations that guys make on this program our focus is solely on what’s happening to body composition how are we getting guys lean at the same time that we’re helping guys to build all-new muscle so let me show you an example of that to underscore exactly what it is I’m talking about let’s say you start out at 180 pounds and you’re twenty percent body fat okay twenty percent of 180 would mean that you carry 36 pounds of fat now the rest of your body your lean muscle or your lean body mass is everything else okay it’s your ordinance it’s your skeleton it’s your skin it’s your blood it’s the water in your in your body all that together along with your muscle content okay same let’s say you went through a whole 90 days and you wound up at 180 pounds again but you had 10% body fat you lost 10% fat now you’re down to 18 pounds of fat mass so when you look at the comparison this guy let’s see 30 150 144 pounds of lean body mass in the first case and then after 20 160 162 so there be basically an 18 pound increase in lean body mass now we know that when you add muscle muscles are great Depot for water and we’re going to talk about that and the importance of that when we talk about measuring body fat in a second so some of this is going to be the water that’s also carrying absorbed by the new added muscle that you had but you can see how this 180 powder is going to be the skinny fat guy and this 180 pounder is going to look a hell of a lot different so right away you have to realize that the scale would have told these two guys that they are the same our body fat measurements can tell these two guys they look drastically different so now let me cover a couple of ways that we can measure the body fat because I know you guys want to learn how to do that and of course we all don’t have thousands and thousands of dollars you go get into a underwater testing environment something like that so let’s take a look at what we do have our disposal to see how accurate they can be okay so if you want to measure our body fat and you’re not going to run out and jump into a bod pod or do some hydrostatic testing you want to get an idea or a sense of where you are because I’ve already told you it is an important way to measure your progress you have some options for the home environment right here first and foremost so you’re going to see that not all of our options are good ones because these online calculators I’m sure you’ve seen you can completely disregard those guys and throw them away they’re absolute crap why because they’re basically telling you that they can determine what your body fat level is by knowing what your ages your height your weight and what your activity level is and whether your activity falls into like these three broad categories of moderately active not really active or very active right this is not an accurate way to get your body fat so don’t use those don’t let them discourage you and don’t let them encourage you just get rid of them entirely now what is that got one here it’s one of these types of devices the kind that you hold in your hands now you can also find the scales and they’re doing the same exact thing but the way that these work is they basically have these panels here that send out a low level electrical signal now it’s the same thing if you were to stand on it it goes into one foot or one hand and it measures how long it takes to travel to the other side now fat is going to slow things down muscle being a Depot for water is going to speed things up we all know how much what our life’s electricity right so it’s going to conduct that if you have more muscle more body water inside of those muscles will transmit that quicker and that will give you the difference in the body fat measurement that you see on these things the same thing if you were to stand on the scale okay same principle but what’s a problematic about this is that there’s so many things that can impact how quickly that signal is transferred even from the surface of our hands so if you’re a guy that does work out a lot and you’ve got calluses all of your fingers depending upon where you hold this thing that’s going to impact how quickly it can transfer through the skin and get to the other side same thing I just said how you hold it the instructions of this thing are like a you know a 20 page manual on making sure you’re not holding it in here you’re holding it out your hands not tilted or your hands not twisted it’s like it’s got its own scent a recipe here you know instructions to get through this now I’ll show you maybe how this leads into the next problem with a lot of these home devices is the differences in results that you’ll see so I’m going to turn this thing on and take my body fat measurement through here okay so I’m going to get my hands out in front of me it’s measuring okay it’s got me at 10. 5 it’s the top number there all right now I’m pretty confident on that at 10. 5% body fat will rely on the next tool here to tell us if we’re if I and this here is skin calipers now the skin Dex is the exact same tool we used to use in Major League Baseball to take our intake body fat and spring training make sure we did this throughout the season now as I say guys we don’t I don’t tell you about things that I don’t do myself here whether that be from nutrition working out supplementation well same thing with body fat testing if I say it’s important it’s important I think you guys should be doing it and we were doing it every month in baseball just to make sure that our athletes stay where we needed them to be with skin caliper testing here you’re going to get a bit more accurate but the problem is you can have a lot of variation between the tester you certainly don’t want to have your buddy testing you and then you testing yourself because the difference in how you do it can vary dramatically so you want to make sure that you’re always doing it it’s not all that easy to do on yourself but I’m going to try here to see where I’m at with the calipers again chest measurement abdomen leg you’re supposed to basically pinch and then you could flex so you can make sure that you’re not grabbing any muscle but your flex until you can pinch away grab supposed to be a little bit below the fold but I can’t get underneath there so I’m gonna grab right down here lock that in here you have them in again flex and here and then finally with the leg sign five point eight so as you can see I was able to drop almost half of my body fat remember what it was for ten point eight or ten point nine now down to five point eight without even having to do a single workout so you can see that it’s not all that accurate but one thing you can do if you have one of these devices just try to do it sort of on its own merit how does it compare to itself you know your measurements from one day to the next or even if you don’t want to rely on the fold the skin fold measurement to do the entire formula just do the the Falls themselves and see if the thicknesses go down on the folds each time you do that so